Initial public offerings (IPOs) underpricing is a widely researched area in finance literature. Yet, empirical evidence demonstrating and theoretical models explaining differences in underpricing across countries have remained an enigma in academia for a long time. This thesis consists of three independently interconnected essays that explain differences in underpricing observed across the Group of Twenty (G20) IPO markets.

This practical research aims to be guidance for investors who intend to claiming projects’ incentives offered by Indonesia’s government. Many of them failed to claim such incentives due to lack documents fulfillment since preparation, they mostly unaware, when it needed just realized requiring many revisions and finally came to end-rejection.

This version includes amendments resulting from IFRSs issued up to 31 December 2008. SIC-15 Operating leases - Incentives was developed by the Standing Interpretations Committee and issued in December 1998.

PUBLIC GOODS, PRIVATE INCENTIVES, AND AGRICULTURAL R&D: PRODUCTIVITY AND POVERTY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRY AGRICULTURE Like Baker, McMillan, and Reuben (2002), I identify parental valuations by the location of clusters of high income families: If parental preferences over communities depend exclusively on the effectiveness of the local schools, the most desirable—and therefore wealthiest—communities are necessarily those with the most effective schools. If peer group matters at all to parents, however, there can be “unsorted” equilibria in which communities with ineffective schools have the wealthiest residents and are the most preferred. These equilibria result from coordination failures: The wealthy families in ineffective districts would collectively have the highest bids...

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